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Sign up todayFifty Famous Fairy Tales
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Learn moreThis wonderful collection incorporates the most timeless tales from the best sources of fairy tales: Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Antoine Galland, translator of The Thousand and One Nights. They are sure to delight audiences of all ages.
Tales in this collection include Puss in Boots, Rumpelstiltskin, The Frog Prince, Cinderella, or the Glass Slipper, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Wild Swans, Snow White and Rose Red, The Spirit in the Bottle, Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Bears, The Musicians of Bremen, The Fisherman and His Wife, and many others sure to be familiar to children and adults alike.
Rosemary Kingstonย is the editor who assembled the stories for the collection Fifty Famous Fairy Tales, which actually includes fifty-one.
Marguerite Gavin has recorded more than three hundred audiobooks. She is a winner of both AudioFile Earphones and Publishers Weekly Listen-Up awards. She lives with her family around Washington, DC.
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โGavinโs assured, velvety voice is a good match for this adaptationโฆKingstonโs phrasing occasionally sounds a bit formal (consistent with the era of the bookโs publication)โฆBut listeners who get whisked away by the magical elements of these stories wonโt mind. Gavinโs consistent, even-keeled delivery makes this a good choice for bedtime and quiet time, for listeners both young and older.โ
“[Gavin’s] pleasant, articulate voice is welcome story after story…an excellent resource for both storytellers and listeners, particularly for literature studies.”
โWhat a treat to have a compendium of the greats of folk literature from the European tradition narrated by Marguerite Gavin, who evokes memories of oneโs own mother reading the stories by oneโs bedsideโฆGavin adds just the right amount of inflection and variation to bring voice to each character, be it the innocent child, the gruff and rumbly giant, or the calculating innkeeper.โ
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